Song, Liao, and Jin · Religious Leader and Monk

Phagpa 八思巴

Basiba

c. AD 1239 - AD 1279

Passages
10
Chapters
1
Histories
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Overview

Phagpa was a Religious Leader and Monk.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Posthumous name Great Yuan Imperial Preceptor 皇天之下一人之上開教宣文輔治大聖至德普覺真智佑國如意大寶法王、西天佛子、大元帝師
Alternate name Pandita 班彌怛
Epithet holy child 聖童

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  • Kinship Role ancestors · Quantity more than ten generations · Mode named-source-report Source Work tradition 相傳
    Directly stated · History of Yuan 202, passage 8

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • State Preceptor 國師
    AD 1260 中統元年 · Appointed
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 202, passage 12
  • Great Yuan Imperial Preceptor 皇天之下一人之上開教宣文輔治大聖至德普覺真智佑國如意大寶法王、西天佛子、大元帝師
    AD 1279 十六年 · Granted posthumously
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 202, passage 26
  • Great Precious Dharma King 大寶法王
    AD 1269 至元六年 · Granted
    Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 202, passage 24

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References in the histories

10 passages

History of Yuan, Chapter 202Volume 202 Biographies 89: Buddhists and Taoists · 10 passages
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十六年，八思巴卒，訃聞，賻贈有加，賜號皇天之下一人之上開教宣文輔治大聖至德普覺真智佑國如意大寶法王、西天佛子、大元帝師。 Phagpa died in the sixteenth year. When word reached the capital, the court lavished funeral gifts upon him and posthumously invested him with the title Imperial Preceptor of the Great Yuan, Buddha's Son of the Western Paradise, and Great Precious Dharma King — along with a string of honorific epithets proclaiming him sage, enlightener, and protector of the realm.